I’m pondering it, but I’m useless at riddles. Solution when you next post?
The riddle came to me when reading one book, trying to wrap my head round its ideas, and another book came to mind.
Of course it might be Iām useless at writing riddles.
You flatter me, thank you very much! I like your vision. Haha, all I do is apply black as shadows like there’s no tomorrow. Cheers.
Iām a new fan, and your pictures are glorious. I wonder if your intricate, wonderful trees provide a clue to the riddleās answer? Not fishing for clues here, just enjoying the images and the pondering. For me the key is: What do we create solely by thought? What comes to my mind is our notion of the divine. My apologies for drifting verbosely here. I look forward to seeing more of your fine work.
Thanks JMN. I appreciate your thinking about the riddle. I have a piece of fiction in progress to take this idea further, but my time is a little limited right now (supposedly on holiday but still working, how crap is that?).
The riddle is lovely ā thought, life, chemistry, physics. Itās the kind of thing I like to think about as I court sleep at dayās end. Very interesting that you have a work of fiction going. You mention guitar and ukulele in one of your blogās comment threads. We have several things in common!
I noticed. Playing guitar is cool, but I wish brain and fingers could follow the music in my head. Reading music makes me understand a little what it might be like to be dyslexic.
You have music in your head that wants following. Thatās a wellspring of creativity, I would think. It suggests a bent for composing, which seems to me may come from the same place you tap in your drawing (and riddles). Guitar has been a perennial, recurring project with me. Of late Iām on a mission (again) to better understand certain facets of music theory, on one hand, and on the other to navigate the fretboard with greater clarity. Iām also trying to craft some kind of graphical expression, crude though it be, of musical relationships ā specifically, intervals, modes, scales. I would like to progress from fingering the guitar, which I do moderately well, to playing it with cognition and transparency, transcending mere patterns! I note your mention of dyslexia with reference to reading music. It seems insightful to me. I read notation, but laboriously, not fluently. Itās akin to decoding cerebrally, rather than streaming data straight to the tiny muscles, as I crudely think of it.
These have a flavor of Van Gogh. I’ve been obsessed with Joan Mitchell’s trees lately, and she learned a lot from Van Gogh. all those circles. (K)
Well, itās a great programme and Iām still pondering the answer to your riddle based on it…So far, I am deliberating between three possibilities, which are Time, Brexit and a casserole! Not necessarily in that order! Hmmm!!! š
The first lecture in the comedy was clearly researched from Carlo Rovelliās āthe order of timeā. Itās a recently published book for lay reader from physicist studying quantum gravity. One truth smuggled through is that physics has no need for time and in fact demolishes the concept. So how do we have this perception of time? Thatās what Rovelli discusses and thatās the riddle. My riddle may be obscure but the book is mind blowing. Still I like Brexit and a casserole as answers too. Especially the casserole.
Well, Iām thrilled to bits to read this because I thought Iād spotted that truth and then thought I was mistaken. I didnāt know about the book but it sounds fascinating. I shall try. Mind you, I have tried several times to read The Quantum Universe: Everything That Can Happen Does Happen by the Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw and still canāt get my brain to work! I wish I was brighter! Thanks for solving the riddle, and I love your drawings too.
… there seems to be a rogue ātheā in there… apologies!
This is a theme Iām coming back to in future posts. Try the book. We all struggle with this stuff without the math. But itās profound.
Such thoughtfully designed marks to create trees š
Thanks
The tree is the same in each picture by the way, done spring looking back through winter to autumn.
This is a fabulous sequence
Thanks. Itās really gratifying you think so.
No one has tried to guess the riddle I notice.
I’m pondering it, but I’m useless at riddles. Solution when you next post?
The riddle came to me when reading one book, trying to wrap my head round its ideas, and another book came to mind.
Of course it might be Iām useless at writing riddles.
I really love the patterns in this.
Thank you. I think of your drawings often. Indeed you were in my mind today when drawing on a rocky beach, but I canāt find your clarity of vision.
You flatter me, thank you very much! I like your vision. Haha, all I do is apply black as shadows like there’s no tomorrow. Cheers.
Iām a new fan, and your pictures are glorious. I wonder if your intricate, wonderful trees provide a clue to the riddleās answer? Not fishing for clues here, just enjoying the images and the pondering. For me the key is: What do we create solely by thought? What comes to my mind is our notion of the divine. My apologies for drifting verbosely here. I look forward to seeing more of your fine work.
Thanks JMN. I appreciate your thinking about the riddle. I have a piece of fiction in progress to take this idea further, but my time is a little limited right now (supposedly on holiday but still working, how crap is that?).
The riddle is lovely ā thought, life, chemistry, physics. Itās the kind of thing I like to think about as I court sleep at dayās end. Very interesting that you have a work of fiction going. You mention guitar and ukulele in one of your blogās comment threads. We have several things in common!
I noticed. Playing guitar is cool, but I wish brain and fingers could follow the music in my head. Reading music makes me understand a little what it might be like to be dyslexic.
You have music in your head that wants following. Thatās a wellspring of creativity, I would think. It suggests a bent for composing, which seems to me may come from the same place you tap in your drawing (and riddles). Guitar has been a perennial, recurring project with me. Of late Iām on a mission (again) to better understand certain facets of music theory, on one hand, and on the other to navigate the fretboard with greater clarity. Iām also trying to craft some kind of graphical expression, crude though it be, of musical relationships ā specifically, intervals, modes, scales. I would like to progress from fingering the guitar, which I do moderately well, to playing it with cognition and transparency, transcending mere patterns! I note your mention of dyslexia with reference to reading music. It seems insightful to me. I read notation, but laboriously, not fluently. Itās akin to decoding cerebrally, rather than streaming data straight to the tiny muscles, as I crudely think of it.
These have a flavor of Van Gogh. I’ve been obsessed with Joan Mitchell’s trees lately, and she learned a lot from Van Gogh. all those circles. (K)
Praise indeed. Iāll look up Mitchell. Thanks Kerfe.
A good idea? Not sure of the answer and equally poor at riddles!
Ill be coming back to this riddle soon
Iām relieved to hear that! Itās been rattling round my head and I canāt think what the answer might be. Good to be challenged though…
Try this:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0004sgx
Well, itās a great programme and Iām still pondering the answer to your riddle based on it…So far, I am deliberating between three possibilities, which are Time, Brexit and a casserole! Not necessarily in that order! Hmmm!!! š
The first lecture in the comedy was clearly researched from Carlo Rovelliās āthe order of timeā. Itās a recently published book for lay reader from physicist studying quantum gravity. One truth smuggled through is that physics has no need for time and in fact demolishes the concept. So how do we have this perception of time? Thatās what Rovelli discusses and thatās the riddle. My riddle may be obscure but the book is mind blowing. Still I like Brexit and a casserole as answers too. Especially the casserole.
Well, Iām thrilled to bits to read this because I thought Iād spotted that truth and then thought I was mistaken. I didnāt know about the book but it sounds fascinating. I shall try. Mind you, I have tried several times to read The Quantum Universe: Everything That Can Happen Does Happen by the Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw and still canāt get my brain to work! I wish I was brighter! Thanks for solving the riddle, and I love your drawings too.
… there seems to be a rogue ātheā in there… apologies!
This is a theme Iām coming back to in future posts. Try the book. We all struggle with this stuff without the math. But itās profound.
I will!